Well as all 10 candidates fight for endorsements one organization feels like acting like a "Twix" commercial. Instead of picking one candidate they picked two. That is right "Two for me none for you"

I could not resist...

Here is the press release from Citizen Union's endorsements:

For Immediate Release
February 12, 2007

Media Contact:
Sara Stuart, 212.227.0342 ext. 16

Citizens Union Issues Endorsement for Brooklyn's 40th Council District
Zenobia McNally and Wellington Sharpe Secure Joint Endorsement in Crowded Field of Talented Candidates

The historic good-government organization, Citizens Union, announced its support for two candidates running for the City Council seat being vacated by Yvette Clark in central Brooklyn. After extensive interviews with the candidates for the 40th council district, Citizens Union has issued a joint endorsement for Zenobia McNally and Wellington Sharpe. While the organization prefers to issue a single endorsement, it found that these two candidates stood out amongst a crowded field of well-qualified candidates. With ten candidates vying to fill the shoes of the former council member, narrowing the field to support just one candidate was difficult.

[Ed. note: The following is a letter from U.S. Senator Barack Obama, D-IL. Bumped.].

Dear Friend,

Today, we sadly find ourselves at the very point in Iraq I feared most when I opposed giving the President the open-ended authority to wage this war in 2002 – an occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences in the midst of a country torn by civil war.

We have waited and we have been patient. We have given chance after chance for a resolution that has not come, and, more importantly, watched with horror and grief the tragic loss of thousands of brave young Americans.

The time for waiting in Iraq is over. The days of our open-ended commitment must come to a close. And the need to bring this war to an end is here.

That is why today, I’m introducing the Iraq War De-escalation Act of 2007. This plan would not only place a cap on the number of troops in Iraq and stop the escalation, it would begin a phased redeployment of U.S. forces with the goal of removing of all U.S. combat forces from Iraq by March 31st, 2008 – consistent with the recommendations of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group that the President ignored.

The redeployment of troops to the United States , Afghanistan , and elsewhere in the region would begin no later than May 1st of this year, toward the end of the timeframe I first proposed in a speech more than two months ago. In a civil war where no military solution exists, this redeployment remains our best leverage to pressure the Iraqi government to achieve the political settlement between its warring factions that can slow the bloodshed and promote stability.

Deregulation Affecting the Small Business

“Electricity Deregulation”. This term has been spreading through the business community for the last eight years. What is it and how does it affect you? Can you save money? Is there a connection between deregulation and Con Edison’s power outage? The whole concept of deregulation seems overwhelming. However, deregulation is not new; you probably remember the deregulation of airline travel and long distance telephone service.
Deregulation had no impact on the power outage. In fact, Con Edison no longer owns the large power plants in New York City. They were required to sell them when deregulation began. So, just like a third party supplier, Con Edison must buy electricity to sell to their customers.
What deregulation allows you to do is to purchase electricity from a third party supplier other than Con Edison. How does this work? The third party supplier will bill the customer for their actual electricity usage. Con Edison will bill the customer for delivering that electricity. Savings from this “two-bill” system are likely; Con-Ed’s portion of the bill is no longer taxable because Con Ed is not providing electricity, just transporting it. Since tax rates in New York City are as high as 8.375%, commercial customers gain true savings. One option is SmartChoice energy which guarantees savings.

We had a week of race in races, of urban pachyderms looking for electoral love; trying to avert a sweeping metrocratic victory in New York.

While I was dealing with servers molested by MySQL memory problems, Michael was having fun with deficits, statistics, freepers and Ann Coulter.

Dan on the other hand, was not happy at the hoodwinking budget the city is stuck with.

Anybody with doubts that bloggers are talker and not doers ought to put that to rest with our very own Mole333. The man is busy with his campaign to save science in these times of empire fundamentalisms; keeping a vigilant yet active eye on the e-voting machines issues; and more importantly, trying to get his choice of congressman elected.

Yet ... and yet ... we have Michael to keep us entertain with disturbingly pornographic homages to forced pregnancies and Quinnipac's bi-weekly roundup of statistical porn.

And to cap it all off, Dan is turning out to be our go-to guy not just for issues on education but on immigration as well.